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Tentative Pronunciation

Pronounce Tentative as T EH N T AH T IY V EH.

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    Tentative phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'tentative'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of tentative: /tɛntætɪvɛ/
    • Modern IPA representation of tentative: /tɛntætɪvɛ/

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    List of meaning for tentative

    not certain or fixed

    probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative(adj)

    under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon

    "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"

    doubtful, tentative(adj)

    unsettled in mind or opinion

    "drew a few tentative conclusions"

    determined by something else

    our plans are only tentative at this point and will depend on whether you can come

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    tentative in sentence

    1. It was obvious from the little girl’s tentative smile she was nervous about being on stage.

    2. The time of the party is tentative and subject to change.

    3. Because my sister’s baby is due any day now, she is only making tentative plans for next week.

    4. The employees were not happy when they learned their pay raises were tentative and could be cancelled at any moment.

    5. Since I am unsure of my availability for tomorrow, I will set a tentative meeting time with you right now and then confirm later this evening.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term tentative

    After you have a blowout day like you did yesterday and then you had eight days in a row prior to that of dropping, one has to wonder if it is a dead-cat bounce or one has to wonder if there is follow-through, and so I can understand the market being tentative today.

    – Barry Schwartz

    One of the key things the December selloff did was it priced a materially reduced set of earnings expectations for 2019. As a result, investors are going to be somewhat forgiving of companies who either miss estimates or are somewhat tentative in their guidance because they are now expecting that, any companies that talk about 2019 being just as good as 2018 or even sequentially a lot better are going to constitute an upside surprise.

    – Lisa Shalett

    Staff believes the tentative settlement is a positive step towards an ultimate resolution of this matter.

    – Eric Bergh

    The broader market tone is showing signs of tentative risk appetite, bolstered by continued stability in China's exchange rate and reinforced by the release of better-than-feared trade figures out of China.

    – Eric Theoret

    We've reached a tentative agreement between the parties.

    – Bill Wirskye

    Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

    – Louis Pasteur

    The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

    – Jerome Seymour Bruner

    Unveiling a product ahead of rivals is an important milestone, it feels like we're in the Stone Age when it comes to products with flexible screens. We're seeing the first very tentative steps toward the implementation of a technology that may seem to be a solution looking for a problem now, but is likely to become a pillar of designs of consumer electronic devices in the future.

    – Ben Wood

    It's quite clear it is the U.S. side that more than once changed its mind overnight and broke the tentative deal already reached. so we are still committed to whatever we agree to do, but it is the U.S. side that changed its mind so often.

    – Cui Tiankai

    It is a very limited and tentative agreement mainly designed to deescalate tensions.

    – Eswar Prasad

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